Genealogy Van Eck op Goeree Overflakkee » Pietertje Bastiaantje KRUITHOF (1907-1985)

Day of marriage March 17, 1927

• The temperature on March 17, 1927 was between 0.2 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
  • February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
  • February 23 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
  • May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
  • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
  • August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.

Day of death November 22, 1985

• The temperature on November 22, 1985 was between -2.7 and 1.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
  • March 16 » Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
  • July 17 » Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
  • August 12 » Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
  • September 1 » A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMSTitanic.
  • September 4 » The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
  • November 23 » Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1980 » Jules Léger, Canadian journalist and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
• 1981 » Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1986 » Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (b. 1910)
• 1988 » Luis Barragán, Mexican architect and engineer, designed the Torres de Satélite (b. 1908)
• 1989 » C. C. Beck, American illustrator (b. 1910)
• 1989 » René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (b. 1925)